Kyle Connor pots winner in OT, as Winnipeg Jets disappoint PM with 4-3 win in Edmonton

Shane Jones · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 21, 2025 12:24 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Kyle Connor scored the overtime victor arsenic the Winnipeg Jets came distant with a constrictive 4-3 triumph implicit the Edmonton Oilers connected Thursday.

Cole Perfetti, Josh Morrissey and Brandon Tanev besides scored for the Jets (48-18-4), who person won 4 of their past five.

Jeff Skinner had a brace of goals and Zach Hyman besides replied for the Oilers (40-24-5), who saw their three-game winning streak halted.

The Oilers were without the NHL's starring goal-scorer Leon Draisaitl, who is retired day-to-day with an undisclosed injury. Connor McDavid was besides absent for the 3rd period, leaving the crippled with an upper-body wounded aft being slashed by Morrissey.

Connor Hellebuyck made 20 stops to cod the triumph successful nett for the Jets, portion Stuart Skinner recorded 13 saves for the Oilers earlier being progressive successful a late-game nett beforehand collision and removed owed to concussion protocols.

Calvin Pickard entering successful alleviation to marque 3 saves.

Takeaways

Jets: Hellebuyck seems similar a fastener to triumph a 2nd consecutive Vezina Trophy and the 3rd of his career. The Michigan autochthonal came into the contention with a league-leading .924 prevention percent and 2.05 goals-against average. The triumph gave him a 40-10-3 grounds connected the season, 5 wins shy of mounting a caller vocation high.

Oilers: Skinner was elevated up to the apical enactment with McDavid for the 2nd crippled successful a enactment and made the astir of it with his 2 goals, his archetypal points since Feb. 23.

Key moment

After Hyman tied the crippled 3-3 with 5:34 to play successful the third, Winnipeg was capable to get the other constituent successful overtime pursuing a large prevention by Hellebuyck connected Hyman. The Jets did a coagulated occupation cycling successful the Edmonton portion earlier dropping it backmost to Connor who wired location his 37th extremity of the play connected Pickard.

Key stat

Winnipeg's numbers this play person been precise impressive. The Jets are 3rd successful goals scored and clasp the league's apical powerfulness play. They came entered Thursday having allowed a league-low 162 goals successful 69 games this play (2.34 per game) and possessed a stellar plus-77 extremity differential — 26 goals amended than the adjacent Western Conference team, the Dallas Stars, astatine plus-51.

PM successful the a.m.

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney participated successful the greeting skate with the Oilers. An Edmonton autochthonal and self-avowed Oilers fan, who went connected to play arsenic a goalie for Harvard successful college, Carney returned to instrumentality successful the crippled astatine night.

Up next

Jets: Return location to look the Buffalo Sabres connected Sunday.

Oilers: Play big to the Seattle Kraken connected Saturday.